Sigmund Freud Quotes

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  I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Family, Father

  Tags in Childhood, Protection

• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

• A woman who is very anxious to get children always reads ‘storks’ for ‘stocks’.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The principal task of civilisation, its actual raison d’etre, is to defend us against nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I am actually not at all a man of science… I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Beauty, Inspirational

  Tags in Retrospect, Struggle

• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Religion

• My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Inspiration

• The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Life

• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Religion

• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Death, Society

  Tags in War

• A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Men And Women

• The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• The greatest question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want?

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Examination
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  Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expression, Repression

• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Life, Love

Sigmund Freud (115)

Birth:	6th May, 1856
Death:	23rd September, 1939
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Neurologist, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Scientist

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